Books

Deep into The Culture series rn

Epic space operas and sci-fi that takes non-human intelligence seriously. 10/10 

1st book, Consider Phlebas, is kind of a side quest, told from the perspective of a Culture antagonist, distinct from the other books. 

I enjoyed it as a story on its own and it warms you up to the saga

Those books are my absolute favourite science fiction.

For people not knowing the books, The Culture is an extremely advanced technology society. There are 13 or some such titles in the series spreading across multiple centuries.

The common theme of all stories are the ship minds, super human machine intelligence. The crazy thing is that the minds serve all of the culture citizens but they pull the strings behind the scenes of all sorts of galactic conflicts. 

I absolutely love it.